Current Program Series

THURSDAY, Mar. 23, 2023 @ 7:30 p.m. The Battle of Homestead Foundation presents "Steeltown Jews: History and Legacy at Work in Homestead, PA", a free Zoom program discussing the development of Homestead's early Jewish community and the interplay of labor, industry and ethnicity in America's most famous steel mill town. Historian Tammy Hepps will review the history of the Jewish community in Homestead, from the 1881 arrival of the first Jewish family as the steel mill was built to the 1993 closing of the synagogue when the last members could no longer make a minyan.  In parallel, the talk will explore how the popular narratives around Homestead narrowed over time, centering on the interplay of labor and industry yet ultimately erasing people and stories that didn't fit those themes. By restoring Homestead's overlooked Jewish American narratives, new insights are provided that offer a more complete understanding of America's most famous steel mill town. REGISTER here on Eventbrite.

SATURDAY, Dec. 3, 2022 @ 6:00-9:00 p.m. — Battle of Homestead Foundation presents a free in-person screening of "City of Steel" , a new film by Bruce Spiegel. SITE:  AMC Waterfront 22 cineplex at 300 W. Waterfront Drive, West Homestead, PA 15120. * Reserved Seating — MUST REGISTER for free tickets here. City of Steel is a perceptive, poignant and deeply personal 90-minute documentary detailing the rise and fall of the steel industry in the greater Pittsburgh area. For over 100 years, the region's people, communities and neighborhoods were directly tied to the steel mills by countless social and economic links, shaping a unique way of life passed from generation to generation. * SPONSORS: The Waterfront, This Is Red, Golden Age Beer _____________________________ BRUCE SPIEGEL is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning filmmaker whose aesthetic sensibilities were honed by a Pittsburgh childhood where he marveled at the Homestead Steel Works from his bedroom window. He has produced television documentaries (9-11 and Nelson Mandela: Father of a Nation), created films on music and culture (Machito, A Latin Jazz Legacy; Long Road Home; Celebration!; Bill Evans: Time Remembered) and spent 25 years as a producer, editor and director at CBS News/48 Hours Mystery. […]

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m. — the Battle of Homestead Foundation presents a free Zoom program with award-winning filmmaker Sam George discussing his new film "Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike" documenting the 106-day strike at Allegheny Technologies Inc. in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Citing unfair labor practices, the steelworkers of USW 1196 struck in March, 2021. “Local 1196” gives an inside look at picket line conversations, fiery union hall debates, family discussions in union member living rooms ... unique insight and access into the daily struggles of American blue-collar workers faced with a critical career disruption. _____________________________ FILMMAKER Sam George is a documentary filmmaker for the Bertelsmann Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington DC. His 16 films to date have focused on the global intersection of politics, economics, social issues and daily life with locations in Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Latvia, Turkey, Mozambique, Italy, India and the U.S. He is co-author and editor of The No Collar Economy: Exponential Change and the Digital Revolution, a graphic arts book published by the Bertelsmann Foundation in 2017, and Our Digital World. * FOR MORE info click here. * TO REGISTER for the program, click here.